Clothes stick



June 5, 1923.

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macaw filed Octcber 1c, 1920. {Serial no. 417,295.

ToaZLwhom it may concern capable of being cast, so that the cost of Be it known that I, WILLIAMWESLEY production-may be reduced to a minimum, I Cnoonnma citizen of the United States, re- "and as shown,the head includes an enlargesiding at Junction City, in the county of ment 6 which is relatively flat," the edges 45 5 Gearyand State of Kansashave invented thereof tapering towards a central line to a new and useful Clothes Stick, of which provide substantially;jpo-inted ends 7. the following is a specification. Formed integral with the enlargement 6 t This invention relates to clothes sticks, is an enlargement 8 which also has tapering and more particularly to a head employed ends 9 that extend in directions [at right. 50 V 10 on one end of a clothes stick-for assisting angles to the enlargementfi so that the head in removing wet'clothes from a boiler, durwill have a double grip on the clothes with ing the washing of the clothes. which the same. contacts. r

The object of the invention is toprovide a In the use of the device',:a stick, which in head of this character which willcatch into the present showing is illustrated-by the ref- 55 v the clothes and wind the same'around the erence character 10, and on which is'suphead to insure against the clothes becoming "ported the'head, is forced into a boiler of displaced fromlthe head. v I clothes, whereupon the stick is, twisted causf I With the foregoing and. other objects in ing the clothes to become wrapped around 7 view which will appear as the description the head,-where the same may be readily and 60 proceeds, the invention resides in the corneasily removed from the boiler, eliminating :bination and arrangement of partsand in any possibilityfof the clothes becomingdisthe details of construction hereinafter deplaced from the head. scribed and claimed, it being understood Having thus described the invention, what that changes in the precise embodiment of. is'claimed asnew.is:. 4 V 65 the invention herein disclosed,may be made A clothes stick including a head formed v within the scope of what, is claimed, without with a socket member, integral elongated departing from the spirit of the invention. lateral projections formed at the'free end of Referring to the drawing: the. head, said projections being disposed Figure 1 illustrates ,a side elevational adjacent to each. other and having approxi- 7 view of ahead constructed in accordance mately-flat sidefaces, the projections beingith th r t in tion, disposed at right anglesto each other and in Figure 2 is a front elevational View of staggered relation and tapered to the ends the same. thereof. I

Figure 3 is an end elevational view of In testimonythatl claim the foregoing as 75 5 the head. V I my own, I have hereto afiixed my signature Referring to the drawing in detail, the in the presenceof twowitnesses. reference character 5 designates the socket member of the head whichtapers toward the V LL WESLEY B ER- free end thereof to receive the tapered eX- Witnesses: v 40 tremity of a clothes stick. A.- A. THOMAS,

The head is formed preferably of metal f ALIOEE. MICKEY. 

